People who are making it their mission to ruin your day. I don't have to let them, but it is tempting and they know it. It takes two for it to succeed, though. So I have to resist what they are clearly trying to do and be better.
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Yes they use twilight sedation. So you're awake, but don't really care.
Yep, scary for sure.
I have also worn corrective lenses of some type since I was 10 or so. Fortunately my parents had enough money to get me contacts at 12 and worn them until I was in my mid 40's when I had the cataract surgery (yes I was young for that surgery).
But I see better now that I ever have. At least distance. I got the multi-focal implants so I can see both near and far, but arm's length, ie computer, I need cheaters.
This just released official picture of King Charles ..
Immediately reminded me of this picture ... 🤷♂️
vividly it came to my brain
Immediately reminded me of this picture ... 🤷♂️
vividly it came to my brain
What a strange painting. It’s like just stop oil ran out of orange paint.
Currently updating my Mac mini which is taking a lot longer than it should. When will they be able to create a software update tracker that gives realistic times? It said two minutes remaining a while back. Now it’s been stuck on 30 for ages!
My question: is King Charles happy with this new official portrait of him?
Yes, it's generally heavy sedation, so you are aware of what's going on, but can't respond.
When I had mine done, the ophthalmologist?? was talking to the anaesthetist, but not about work stuff.
They were discussing the size of pebble-crete to put around their pools. I really wanted to pipe up and say "Hey, guys, concentrate please!", but I couldn't...
Like when I had my knee replaced, they now use an epidural plus just enough anaesthetic to just put you to sleep.
I woke up half way through to hear the surgeon hammering the part into my leg. Couldn't feel it, but could hear it.
For the next one they put me to sleep a bit deeper.
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I had lasik in 1998, 26 years now. Was 36 then, like -5.5 one eye and -6.25 the other, basically could not see distance at all. Post correction I was 20/15 22 years , now 20/20. Yes I wear reading glasses at 61, that’s an aging thing since 52 or so.
Summer of 1998, I was heavily into MTB riding and racing, glasses were an annoyance.
Turns out I went swimming, wore my glasses in the water deep lake, lost them. Rather than buy replacement I scheduled lasik and got it done within 4 days.
I had been researching lasik 4-5 months, so this made my decision for me.
The surgery was done both eyes same day, one at a time. They put a local anesthesia via q-tip like thing on eye . Then an eye opening clamp put on so no blinking. Then the retinal flap was cut with surgical slice, pulled back , then laser brought in. I was told look directly into the laser as it reshaped the lens - if looked not directly would not be as good a job. I distinctly remember doing that, and the smell of my lens as it was burned away. Took .. gosh 45-60 seconds for the laser itself. Then they flipped the flap back. And did the other eye.
I left with both eyes with gauze , a friend drove me there and home. The next morning.. I was allowed to take off the gauze upon waking. It was an epiphany moment, seeing the clock without glasses .
I had 5 friends who in 1989 and 1990 had eye surgery radial k, the Soviet method. Zero issues for them and most got close to 20/20 but not quite , late 1990’s lasik was considered steps way above radial K.
My brother looked into lasik but never got it done …
I paid $2k per eye, $4k total out of my pocket then. Life changing, zero regrets.
I had lasik in 1998, 26 years now. Was 36 then, like -5.5 one eye and -6.25 the other, basically could not see distance at all. Post correction I was 20/15 22 years , now 20/20. Yes I wear reading glasses at 61, that’s an aging thing since 52 or so.
Summer of 1998, I was heavily into MTB riding and racing, glasses were an annoyance.
Turns out I went swimming, wore my glasses in the water deep lake, lost them. Rather than buy replacement I scheduled lasik and got it done within 4 days.
I had been researching lasik 4-5 months, so this made my decision for me.
The surgery was done both eyes same day, one at a time. They put a local anesthesia via q-tip like thing on eye . Then an eye opening clamp put on so no blinking. Then the retinal flap was cut with surgical slice, pulled back , then laser brought in. I was told look directly into the laser as it reshaped the lens - if looked not directly would not be as good a job. I distinctly remember doing that, and the smell of my lens as it was burned away. Took .. gosh 45-60 seconds for the laser itself. Then they flipped the flap back. And did the other eye.
I left with both eyes with gauze , a friend drove me there and home. The next morning.. I was allowed to take off the gauze upon waking. It was an epiphany moment, seeing the clock without glasses .
I had 5 friends who in 1989 and 1990 had eye surgery radial k, the Soviet method. Zero issues for them and most got close to 20/20 but not quite , late 1990’s lasik was considered steps way above radial K.
My brother looked into lasik but never got it done …
I paid $2k per eye, $4k total out of my pocket then. Life changing, zero regrets.
Can't wait to see the portrait of the Queen Concubine Camilla Parker-Bowels.
Re: The portrait of HM Charles III, some very biting and pointed comments online concerning history which I won't repeat here even if I agree . Gotta wonder what the artist was thinking.
. Gotta wonder what the artist was thinking.
I am reminded of Clementine Churchill's action when she destroyed the portrait of Winston Churchill (subsequently recognised as a masterpiece) - which she had hated - that had been painted by Graham Sutherland.Re: The portrait of HM Charles III, some very biting and pointed comments online concerning history which I won't repeat here even if I agree
At least the relationship - and marriage - between Charles and Camilla is one of mature equals who actually like and love one another, and it is clear that they are happy together.
My own personal opinion is that Charles and Diana made each other utterly miserable and they should never have married, for they were completely incompatible, and were utterly and totally unsuited to one other; actually, for that matter, my own view is that he should have been encouraged to marry Camilla in the first place.
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Being in the USA I'm amazed the whole "put on a pedestal" royalty thing ... entitlement, being in the public lens 24/7, yada-yada.
I get it, it's a cultural thing.
I think the Royals are much more popular in the US than they are in the UK. Any news article I see written about them I just skip. I couldn’t care less about any of them.
Since I'm originally from Japan, the Imperial Family always held my interest, but living in the U.S.A., I would see more of the British Royal Family. Princess Diana held my interest, as she spent so much time going to hospitals and such. Most of the family didn't have much meaning for me.
While I suspect a majority want to keep them, trust me, even with those people they're not thought of as being on any kind of pedestal - it's actually much more of a transactional relationship I guess... You keep spending most of your time opening day centres, hospitals and being jolly nice to the child care assistants, nurses, managers etc you meet and everything can just bump along happily. (It's something a recent entrant to 'the firm' misjudged
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Actually, so am I.
Well, yes, this is true, however, this is not a part of the culture that I embrace.
I know nothing about the British royal family, and I'm so far removed from it. I understand its importance though.
I am quite interested in the difference between these two institutions. Both have a long history, including rather somber colonial expansion, currently hold no real political power and the Japanese Imperial Family until quite recently had a strong religious aspect - maybe they still have a bit of that aura of the claim to be descended from divinity.
I only really see that from two "royals", if you want to call them that. Those two aside, I have always felt the press had more to do with the royal family "public lens 24/7" than they do. That is my .02 from a US view anyway.
The latest Mac Minis are quite good, my director has the M2 and it is really good.
I’m sure. But I’m really not looking to drop a few grand right now. Less than inflation pay rise last year. No pay rise this year. Everything is going up in price.
Single income household.
You get the idea.
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I'm not sure if anyone truly believed that they were from heaven but thinking that they were part of a group who took a long journey across the perils of the seas, who had mud on their faces and feet was not something people would want to remember.
Their ancestors might have been the people who led everyone, who would become Japanese, out of China about 3000 years ago. Maybe, their ancestors supplanted the people who did.
The triumphs of Japan had less to do with the Emperor and more what the idea of the Emperor was. The military business has always been amazing and unsettling, in equal portions. My mother's family were samurai, and someone, probably in the 1300s, got the title of a military advisor. Now, they're just typical people, and Japan is struggling with the lack of honor in daily life and what effect western values have made.
I'm glad I stuck with my mid-2012 MacBook Pro for so long. It seemed as though the Retina models era suffered again and again. My M1 MacBook Air has given me reason to believe again.
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Pay at a McDonald's DT with a dollar coin. Poor girl had no clue and had to go ask her manager.
I think I need to go to the bank and get a roll of these just to pay at the DT. 😂😂😂
Pay at a McDonald's DT with a dollar coin. Poor girl had no clue and had to go ask her manager.
I think I need to go to the bank and get a roll of these just to pay at the DT. 😂😂😂